Under the Internal Revenue Service Federal Tax Code of 1986 there is a provision entitled, the EDUCATOR EXPENSE DEDUCTION, known informally as the “Teacher Tax Deduction.” It allows kindergarten, elementary and secondary school teachers an opportunity to take a tax deduction annually of up to $250 on their federal income tax, if they have spent their own out-of-pocket personal funds to purchase school supplies for their classrooms, receive no reimbursement for this expenditure, and if the teachers have worked in their schools at least 900 hours in a one-year period.
This federal tax law provision will expire on December 31, 2009, unless Congress takes action to extend, expand, modify or continue this provision. If you want teachers to continue to have a tax deduction for purchasing educational materials, then you need to contact Congress now.
- The House Ways and Means Committee wants to move a Tax Extenders Bill, a bill that packages together a multitude of federal tax provisions that are expiring at the end of 2009. The Teachers Tax Deduction provision is expected to be a part of that package.
- Contact your Representatives and members of the House
Ways and Means Committee, to remind them that when they do turn to develop a Tax Extenders Bill, the Teacher Tax Deduction should be included, extended into the future, and contain more generous or expanded provisions that would increase the dollar
value of the deduction and expand its coverage to other categories
of educators.
More information
- Latest advocacy information on Teacher Tax Deduction
- Details on proposed Teacher Tax Deduction Legislation (Aug. 13)
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